Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music.

The contest was judged by the Muses.

While the Byzantine Empire was to continue for nearly another four centuries, and the Crusades would contest the issue for some time, the victory at Manzikert signalled the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in Anatolia.

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

Colangelo's group was so certain that they would be awarded a franchise that they held a name-the-team contest for it ; they took out a full-page ad in the sports section of the February 13, 1995 edition of the state's leading newspaper, the Arizona Republic.

Alford pled guilty to second-degree murder, and said he was doing so to avoid a death sentence if he had been convicted of first-degree murder after attempting to contest that charge.

At that moment, the nominal ruler of al-Andalus, emir Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri ( another member of the Fihrid family, and a favorite of the old Arab settlers ( baladiyun ), mostly of south Arabian or ' Yemenite ' tribal stock ) was locked in a contest with his vizier ( and son-in-law ) al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Qilabi, the head of the new settlers ( shamiyum, the Syrian junds or military regiments, mostly of north Arabian Qaysid tribes, which had arrived only in 742 ).

However, former California Governor Jerry Brown was scoring victories and Clinton had yet to win a significant contest outside his native South.

With minor exceptions, balloting was considered free and fair by the local human rights organizations which monitored the contest.

In March 1964, " Elverket Spelmanslag " was up against another band in a talent contest, The Hep Stars.

He gained nominations to contest progressively safer seats at two subsequent General Elections and was in both cases elected, for Shrewsbury in 1841 ( despite serious opposition, and financial difficulties which opponents seized on ), and then for Buckinghamshire county in 1847.

" It was a hard-fought contest, leading Prince Eugene to observe – " I have not a squadron or battalion which did not charge four times at least.

Modell's team was named the " Baltimore Ravens " after a fan contest and began play in the 1996 season.

A fan contest, drawing 33, 288 voters, was then held to determine the team's name.

In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in March 1982, another candidate named Roy Jenkins was nominated by Labour Party activists to contest the seat in order to confuse voters and split his potential vote.

In particular, he was invited to play at the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow because the organizers wanted to give a " more Russian appearance " of the contest.

In the end, the Cham replica was more impressive than the real brick tower of the Khmer, and the Cham won the contest.

In the post-election leadership contest held in November 1935, Attlee was opposed by Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood.

One of the highlights of the AAFC years was a contest between the 49ers and Browns in 1948.

Soon afterward, he was named team captain, and in 1903 the team was renamed the " Naps " after a newspaper conducted a write-in contest.

" Columbus won the national contest " America in Bloom " in 2006, and in 2004 it was named one of " The Ten Most Playful Towns " by Nick Jr. Family Magazine.

The first Cricket World Cup contest was organised in England in 1975.

He applied his intelligence in unconventional ways, winning a contest when he was in eighth grade by finding over 4, 500 words that could be formed from the letters in " Ziegler's Giant Bar "; the judges had only about 2, 500 words on their master list.

Crawford never formally declared himself a candidate, because he believed that he had little chance against Monroe and feared such a contest might deny him a place in the new cabinet.

The match was formally recognised as being an Olympic contest in 1912, and the medals were later reassigned as gold and silver.

He did not contest the 1985 provincial election, and formally resigned from cabinet on May 17.

Blowick decided not to contest the 1965 general election, and the party was formally wound up.

He received support from senior figures such as Michael D. Higgins, Ruairi Quinn, Willie Penrose, Liz McManus and Emmet Stagg, and did not have to contest a ballot, being formally confirmed as leader on 6 September after being the only declared candidate.

After the commencement of the Miss World contest in 1951 and the Miss Universe contest in 1952, the " Comité Miss France " formally organized in 1954, with Rinaldo as president, under the name " Comité Miss France-Miss Europe-Miss Universe.

The contest formally began on 7 October 2005, when the Chairman of the 1922 committee, Michael Spicer, received a letter of resignation from Michael Howard.

The final scores are usually formally announced at the beginning of the next contest day during the pilot's briefing for the next day's task.

With Pitt, Curtis and Adams all formally withdrawing from the contest, the returning officer declared Shephard elected unopposed.

The concert was cancelled in 1988 due to the illness of the Shōwa Emperor ; the final year was a charity concert for UNICEF, after which the contest was formally ended.

After her firing, Byrne launched a campaign to unseat Bilandic in the 1979 Democratic mayoral primary, the real contest in this heavily Democratic city.

On December 27, 2006, Incubus launched the " I Dig Incubus " contest, in which participants cut together clips of the band performing their single " Dig ", to form a complete music video.

In keeping with the spirit of the original album, two of the songs ' component tracks were released under Creative Commons licenses and a remix contest site was launched.

On March 31, 2010, a contest will be launched in which fans will be able to remix their favorite t. A. T. u songs from the new album.

The first proposal for arms of Fosnes were taken in 1989, when the council launched a contest to develop arms.

In July 1942, Life launched its first art contest for soldiers and drew more than 1, 500 entries, submitted by all ranks.

In the summer of 2003, RI: SE launched a contest in which a member of the public could become the RI: SE reality correspondent.

* In 2006, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation launched an annual essay contest for Muslim students named in Ibn Khaldun's honor.

But Norton hung on, and launched a both powerful and lasting decisive counter attack to later win by the Referree halting the contest as ringsiders had started calling for a halt to prevent further punishment.

On June 1, 2010, Spike launched into the first crowd-sourced pilot episode contest with Scripped, a web-based screenwriting community.

In 2005, Germany ’ s state and federal governments launched the Excellence Initiative, a contest among its universities.

Following the new line from Moscow, and believing that a new " imperialist war " and a new depression were imminent, and that the CPA should immediately contest for leadership of the working class with the Australian Labor Party, the CPA launched an industrial offensive in 1947, culminating in a prolonged strike in the coalmines in 1949.

On 17 March 1848, the Ministry of the Interior of the newly founded Second Republic launched a contest to symbolise the Republic on paintings, sculptures, medals, money and seals, as no official representations of it existed.

For instance, it mentions some new services from the DHL Express as well as the musical contest launched by McDonald's.

In 2010, a contest was launched to find a new logo for Athletics.

; Champs 1 Team: A group of students, led by " John from Ohio University ," who won the " Sifl & Olly: Free Access to the Moon " contest, in which they were launched in a space ship to the moon for a three-year mission.

The episode launched an official contest on the internet to determine who shot Mr. Burns.

After discussing this with various SNP members he was persuaded to contest the leadership himself and launched a challenge against the SNP leader, John Swinney.

The decision to proceed by grant of contract was made in May 1998 ; then in June 2000 the contest for the construction contract was launched, open to four consortia.

In January 2012, Thievery Corporation launched a remixes contest in conjunction with Dubspot.

For Europe ( Greek: Για την Ευρώπη, Gia tin Evropi, GTE ) was launched by Yiannakis Matsis to contest the 2004 European Parliamentary Elections.

Tokyopop launched its first Rising Stars of Manga contest on August 15, 2002 and ended it on December 16, 2002, with more than five hundred American artists submitting their 15 – 25 page, English-language stories.

In 1905, a public contest was launched to design the church ; all five applications received were rejected as not being good enough.

* In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, INL launched four candidates in West Bengal and participated in a " third front " in Tamil Nadu ( Advocate Mr E. Sarwar Khan ), contest at Cuddalore Lok Sabha received 56, 406 votes.